By Nosa Ekhator.
A Family Court in Benin City, EDO State capital, Monday, ordered the Remand of a 43-year-old nanny, Mrs Esther Ehikhoya in Oko Correctional Center for sexually assaulting a 2-year-old girl.
The Chief Magistrate, Dorothy Adamaigbo adjourned the consideration of defendant's bail application until March 26, 2020.
She said that the full panel of the family court would be completed on the said adjournment date to look at the credibility of the bail application before bail will be granted.
Earlier, the police Prosecutor, Insp Peter Ogbe who held brief for the state Counsel told the Court that the accused person committed the offence on February 3, 2020, at Catholic Intercessory Academy, Sapele Road, Benin.
According to the prosecution, the defendant unlawfully and indecently assaulted the child by putting finger in her virginal as a result broke her hymen which was against the law.
He said that the offences contravened sections 360 and 218 of the Criminal Code , Cap 48,Vol. II, Laws of the defunct Bendel state of Nigeria 1976 as applicable in Edo.
SPARKNEWS NAIJA reliably gather that indecent assault of a girl, atracts a two year imprisonment, if found guilty, even though the defendant pleaded not guilty.
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